Month: June 2016

Basic Wordpress Seo
Hi, This is William. and what you see me working on here in this video is a blog post for my site, WilliamClarkson.net
about a video I made on phaser animations and I want to and some basic wordpress seo, or search engine optimization to it
I'm using the YoastSeo plugin it's very easy to use because it gives you a traffic light symbol and what you want try to do is get rid of
all the red lights and get all green lights
and here's my youtube video and I've got the title how to add animations to Phaser
and I am going to copy that as my wordpress title and bring it over into my wordpress blog and I'm going to put that as the title
I'm also going to set it as the key word in yoast
and I'll update the page
and I've got some lights here say...

Phaser Buttons
Phaser Buttons Source Code
Button Snippets
Text Of Video:
Hi! This is William and today I'm going to show you how to put Phaser buttons into your game.
what I've done is I've copied our basic template into a buttons folder
just as I've done in the last few lessons
and other added some image. images/ui/. These come from the mega template and you can find all of this on WilliamClarkson.net
and I've also set up our brackets editor to point a to that buttons folder you just go file-> open folder
just as we did in all the other lessons. Now I'm going to edit stateMain.s and the first thing I want to do
is load that sprite sheet into the library in Phaser and we need to give it a unique ID we'll just call it buttons
and then we give the path ima...

Beginner Code using Javascript
Text of video for Beginner Code follows:
If you ever thought you might want to be a programmer and thought that you couldn't learn? give me 2 minutes to change your mind with some basic Beginner Code!
create a text file on the desktop
and this will work on any computer
and then in that text file I'm going write just a bit of script
and here is one thing I want you know is that we have things in code called tags and most tags have an ending tag
and all it is is a word with inside those > < signs
and then a slash for the ending tag
and this tag is a script tag that tells the computer on the start writing code
to pay attention to and then I'm going to but the end tag. So script and end script copy just l...

Phaser animations
Phaser Animation Source Code
Hello I'm William Clarkson and I am going to show you how to setup Phaser animations.
First I copied my basic template which you can find on my website and you can also find it in the link
with the blog post that goes with this video and I renamed it animation and I've placed the images folder with one image
inside a call robot that will also be available on the blog post but I downloaded it from openGameart.org though I did modify into the
spritesheet and I made it basically the same way I made a sprite sheet in my last video so the first thing we need to do is add that into a preload statement to put it into Phaser's library and you can find that under the snippets on my website toolbox phaser snippets and under sprite
snip...

How to load a sprite sheet into phaser
Download the source files
I'm going to show you a bit about how to load a
sprite sheet into phaser.
I'm going to use somes snippets here and you can just type them out if you like or you can
go to WilliamClarkson.net/phaser-snippets
It is under the toolbox menu item here and I'm going use sprite snippets today.
It has everything you need to be able to load a sprite sheet into phaser except for the spritesheet, and I'm going make a simple sprite sheet here
just to show you how it's done canvas is 220 by 220 and I'm going to make some squares that are
hundreds pixels high and wide and let's set that at 0,0
and then I'm just a copy this square four times to
change different colors so you can see how we
are changing the sp...

How to add an image to Phaser
Download Source Code
One of the first things you need to do when making a game is to add an image, and this video will show you how to add an image to phaser.
Here is the text of the video.
So this video will show you how to add an image to phaser and I'm going to be using the snippets at WilliamClarkson.net
and you can also get the template there which I'm gonna be using a starter code or you can watch my other video on how to set that up
so here are the two snippets that we are going to be using. Insert image into library and add image to stage
once you get the template you just copy it to make a new project
and then given name of the project in this case others call it ADD IMAGE
I'm going to take the HP logo image there and mak...

How to Pick Up the Pieces of a Failed Dream
We all get knocked down by life.
We don't always have control over that. We do have control over what we do about it.
We have control over what we do next.
What we do next is important.
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How to Pick Up the Pieces of a Failed Dream [05:39]
So, what do you do when your dream fails? Well, I mean, you’ve got a couple of options. You could just forget about it and go back to whatever you were doing before; you can change the dream; or you can analyze your dream and see where you went wrong, learn from your mistakes.
So, for me, my dream was to come here, build games and make a living on that. What did I really want out of that? What I really wanted was to be happy and not have a lot of stress in my life. We

My phone is full!
Clarification:The article I read did indeed state 1.2 billion apps, the actual number is closer to 1.5 million, and 700,00 for Google Play
So reading an article online, it says that most Americans download zero apps every month. And there’s 1.2 billion apps in the App Store, and probably a little slightly less in Google Play, but certainly millions. But 65% of US smartphone users don’t download any new apps; so no new games, no new apps, nothing. So what happens to those of us who try to make our living pushing these games and apps and everything else? There’s got to be a better solution. It’s just flooded. And I’ve tried for more than a year to get some of my apps out there. One of them is only doing anything at all, and the amount that I’m making a day

setting up phaser for games
I've been using phaser a lot for games lately. I'm going to be posting and showing a lot of how to build games in Phaser, this video will show you how get set up!
All you need is a code editor. Anyone will do. I use dreamweaver, but some I've been using Brackets. It is a nice FREE alternative.
You'll need some web space, or a free local server like xampp will do. and you need some code.
I've been building some snippets to make it easier.
To get started:
Free Code editor
Local server(or web space)
Some Code Snippets
This Video
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Setup Phaser for Games
I have been working a lot lately with something called Phaser and I want to show you how to do all sorts of cools things in it. But first we have to do the steps...

Dreams and Fears-not giving up
Things haven't gone as planned, but that's ok. They rarely do.
Sometime you have to re-evaluate if you dreams are worth it.
Here are my thoughts.
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Dreams and Fear [05:56]
For those of you that don’t know me my name is Will. And for those of you that do know me, you know that I’ve had dreams. And my dream lately, the last one, the last big one anyway, was to move here to rural Thailand and build games and make money off of doing that. Well, the dream hasn’t quite worked out the way I wanted. I did move here, I’m in the middle of rural Thailand at the moment. It’s beautiful, I love it here. And there had been more problems than I had thought that there would be. But some of them are my fault and some of them aren’t my